Dakota War of 1862
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The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, or Little Crow's War, was an armed conflict
Attack on New Ulm Anton Gag, 1904
This photograph is titled "People escaping from the Indian massacre of 1862 in Minnesota, at dinner on a prairie". It is the right half of a stereograph published by Whitney's Gallery, St. Paul, Minn. This photo is actually "Mixed Bloods" who were rescued by non-hostile Dakota. The girl in the foreground wrapped in the striped blanket is Elise Robertson, the sister of Thomas Robertson, a mixed blood who acted as an intermediary between the hostile and non hostile Dakota and the whites.
"The siege of New Ulm, Minnesota" by Henry August Schwabe
Fort Ridgely burning (1890 oil painting)
Little Crow
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Little Crow III was a Wahpekute Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862.
Dakota War of 1862
…point. On August 17, 1862, four young Dakota men killed five white settlers in Acton, Minnesota, after a disagreement. That night, a faction led by Chief Little Crow decided to attack the Lower Sioux Agency the next morning in an effort to drive all settlers out of the Minnesota River valley. The demands of the Civil…
Thaóyate Dúta, known as Little Crow, portrait by Henry H. Cross
Lac qui Parle view from Fort Renville
Lac qui Parle Mission (reconstructed)
Kaposia village (c. 1846–1848)